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Paddleboard rentals are going swimmingly for North Logan Library

By Valentino Warren The North Logan City Library has added paddleboards to its inventory as part of an effort to attract more of a vital demographic. The popular outdoor adventure rentals join Kindles, talk-like-a-pirate training software, Nerf swords, movies and, of course, books as items available for borrowers. The effort to diversify the library’s collections began four years back, when library director Adam Winger was reviewing the organization’s annual report and realized the library was not serving a key group. "We barely had services for users between the ages 10 and 19, which is North Logan's most populous group," Winger said. "The paddleboards have generated 15 calls a day — without advertising." The library is the first in Utah to rent paddleboards. Paddleboarders are propelled by a swimming motion using their arms or paddles while lying, kneeling, or standing on a board in a large body of water. By reforming and catering to such an imp...